“If you bill £1,000 an hour, as some senior lawyers do, then any particular six-minute increment of time is available to be turned into £100.”
Bill in six-minute slices and every slice of life gets a price tag, including the bedtime story. A dairy farmer works brutal hours, but nobody milks the cows twice for extra pay. Knowledge work now runs on the same tools with no fixed hours, so everyone gets the lawyer’s disease. Most of us just don’t get the lawyer’s rate.